28 August 2007

It seems that the press reports I
mentioned
about the Amtrak outage were not correct. A later report asserts that
the problem was with a
circuit
breaker panel, and that the delay in restoring service was
because of how long it took to get the new part.

The new article confirms, though, that Amtrak did have plans for
passenger service during such an outage. That's excellent, even if
some station agents were unaware of the backup procedure.